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July 30, 1864 Battle of the CraterOn this day, the Union's ingenious attempt to break the Confederate lines at Petersburg by blowing up a tunnel that had been dug under the Rebel trenches fails. Although the explosion created a gap in the Confederate defenses, a poorly planned Yankee attack wasted the effort and the result was an eight-month continuation of the siege.
I am not sure if this is on the history channel or not, it might be on discovery, But I like 'Unsolved history' They go back with forensic experts, historians and other kinds of experts to take on a historical mystery, such as the Boston massacre, O.K. corral, and Billy the kid and Pat Garretts fatal shot, among others.
http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/m/moawar/waro.htmlI hope this link works. This should bring up the Official records of the civil war published by the U.S. Gov in I beleive the 1890's. If you had the set (A friend of mine does) They would number 128 books. There's a set on ebay right now if anyones interested going for $1,700. Also you can get the records on cd for about 20.
I counsel you to read Rodney Stark, the celebrated contemporary historian. His research and logical study shows the term "Dark ages" (refering to the period of disenlightenment after the great high cultures of Ancient Greece and Rome came crashing down blamed on the rise of Christianity) was knowingly created and spun from whole cloth. In Dr. Bill Bennett's new history book, he also confirms the Stark facts on Columbus and the Church and portrays the voyage of Columbus the way it really was. What is interesting is how all the history text books in use across the U.S. for half a century got it wrong and filled the minds of trusting young Leftists that the Church was anti-Science and full of Flat-Earth zealots.
Sounds like an interesting read. I agree with your assesment of text books, at least the ones I had in school. They were practically worthless.
" It also was the debut of the serious actor in Robin Williams, at least as best as I recall.
I believe 'Dead poets society' came before didnt it? (Another great movie)
I find this bit of US history a bit ironic and more than a bit embarrassing.
I agree. It was a horrible chapter in american history and like you said, more than a bit embarrassing.
Great new catagory! One question about your defintion of dark ages, Do you think that time period is really the foundation of our modern society? It was just a thought that popped into my head when I was reading your post. I was thinking that religion, literature and even government began to take a shape that we today could recognize to a certain extent. If so I guess that would add some light to the 'dark ages'.
I think it created an era of cynicism and scorn for our legal system due to all the copycat frivilous lawsuits that followed.? It was another contributing factor to the death of Reason. 🙁
I whole heartedly agree. A friend of mine as a joke once said to his wife that they were only one good lawsuit away from financial independance. It was a joke, but it does reflect an underlying attitude of get rich quick regardless of who suffers.
The soviets said that the missiles were placed to protect Cuba from further planned attacks by the United States and were rationalized by the Soviets as retaliation for the United States placing nuclear warheads in the United Kingdom, Italy, and Turkey. Why didnt they (soviets) demand the removel of those missles in return for their abandonment of Cuba?
Give it time, A good site like this one will do well. Look, Today you've got a new all time hime of 18 as of this posting!
Here is an interview with him from 1996; Interesting to see the war from the other sides viewpoint.The Dien Bien Phu campaign is a great and first victory of a feudal colonial nation, whose agricultural economy is backward, against the great imperialist capitalist which has a modern industry and a great army. Thus, it means a lot to us, to people all over the world, and to other countries. This is also how Ho Chi Minh saw it. http://web.archive.org/web/20081219105355/http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/11/interviews/giap/
Found this on Wickipedia, no wonder there nuclear program comes as a surprise;Israel is widely believed to possess a substantial arsenal of nuclear weapons and intermediate-range ballistic missiles to deliver them. There is also speculation that it may have chemical and biological weapons programs. Israel acceded to the Geneva Protocol on February 20, 1969.The Israeli government refuses to officially confirm or deny that it has a nuclear weapon program, and has an unofficial but rigidly enforced policy of deliberate ambiguity, saying only that it would not be the first to "introduce nuclear weapons in the Middle East" [1]. Israel is one of three nuclear-armed, sovereign nation-states not to sign or ratify the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the other two being India and Pakistan.[2]
